Fu, Zhengjia. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-116). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts also in Chinese.

Project Report (M.Pub.) - Simon Fraser University, 2005. / Project Report (Master of Publishing Program) / Simon Fraser University.

M. Inf. / It has become increasingly difficult for end-users to locate, select and organise information published via the World Wide Web. This is largely due to the scattered nature of the Web and its ever-increasing use as publishing infrastructure. More scholarly information is also being published in multimedia format through the Web. Throughout the years, current awareness services and later Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) have provided the means for scholars to keep abreast of the literature in print sources. Today such information is also published via the Web, hence scholars need to have a mechanism to keep abreast of the information published in digital format. Research was conducted to investigate guidelines scholars could use to stay abreast of new Web content. The investigation employed both a literature survey and an empirical method of collecting research data. The literature survey was conducted to establish trends in current awareness services and SDI, the use of the Web for disseminating and retrieving digital information, the impact of the Web on the scholarly communication process and current methods for keeping up to date with Web content. Empirical research in the form of structured interviews was executed to establish the needs of scholars regarding the spectrum of current awareness services that provide Web-based sources. The findings obtained from structured interviews and by means of the literature survey were used to develop a set of guidelines scholars could use to stay abreast of information published via the Web.

The authors' analysis of 291 family business articles published in 30 management journals between 2001 and 2007 reports the contributions of individual scholars and academic institutions to family business research. To better understand the interrelationships among scholars who have contributed to family business research, a network analysis of coauthor relationships was conducted. The authors also provide a content analysis of the articles and offer suggestions for future research. By analyzing the who, where, and what of family business research, the reasons why the developmental trends have occurred and how the field's momentum can be maintained and directed toward productive ends become clearer.

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This paper argues that the distinction between grey and non-grey (or white) literature will become less relevant over time, as online discovery options proliferate. In the meantime, the political success of the open access publishing movement has valuable lessons for proponents of increasing access to grey literature.

Open access publishing is an initiative that aims to provide universal, unrestricted free access to full-text scholarly materials via the Internet. This presents a radically different approach to the dissemination of research articles that has traditionally been controlled by the publishing enterprise that regulates access by means of subscriptions and licences fees levied on users, predominantly academic libraries. In presenting the case for open access publishing, the thesis explored the contemporary research environment, changing modes of knowledge production, the problems associated with the existing academic journal system, and the subsequent growth of the open access movement as an intervention to reclaim scientific communication. It highlighted the ways in which open access better answers the requirements of researchers, funders, governments, and society more broadly.

Conducting research, evaluating research, and publishing scholarly works all play an extremely prominent role for university faculty members. Tenure and promotion decisions are greatly influenced by the perceived value of publications as viewed by members of faculty evaluation committees. Faculty members seeking tenure may be limited to publishing in a limited group of journals perceived to be valuable by members of an academic committee. This study attempted to determine the value of various kinds of periodicals (journals, magazines, and e-journals), based on three principal criteria, as perceived by professionals (university faculty, K-12 practitioners, and corporate trainers) in the educational/instructional technology (E/IT) field. The criteria for journal evaluation were Academic Prestige, General Reading, and Classroom Use. The perceived value of journals based on each criterion was compared to determine any significant differences. Members of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) were asked to rate 30 journals in the E/IT field using the three criteria. Statistically significant differences were found among ratings in 63% of the journals. The statistical analyses indicated that differences in the perceived value of journals among E/IT professionals across the three criteria (Academic Prestige, General Reading, and Classroom Use) were statistically significant. It is also noted that refereed journals were rated higher than nonrefereed journals for the Academic Prestige criterion. Survey respondents indicated that individual journals were not valued for the same reasons. This finding implies that the formation of any equitable measure for determining the value of faculty members' journal article publications would be best if based on definable criteria determined by colleagues. Lists of valued journals for each area of faculty assessment would provide standards of excellence both inside and outside the E/IT field for those who serve on tenure and promotion committees in educational institutions.

Thesis advisor: Philip G. Altbach / The purpose of this study is to examine the reasons why Japanese visiting scholars visited the United States, their activities and experiences during their visits, their challenges and support for their transition, and personal and contextual factors that affected their transition in different stages. Although short-term international scholar mobility has recently increased, there are few studies on the population of international visiting scholars. In addition, while there is an overall increase in the number of international scholars, the number of Japanese scholars is decreasing. This qualitative study explores the Japanese visiting scholars' experiences of transition by drawing upon Schlossberg's adult transition model (e.g., Anderson, Goodman, and Schlossberg, 2011). The findings show that the purpose of visit and activities during the visits varied by individuals, although most activities were individual and professional ones, such as conducting research, networking, and teaching. While the first-time visiting scholars engaged in English practice and observation of cultural differences, the scholars with family members reported social experiences through their children's schools. Several scholars worked on institutional relations during their visits. The challenges that the visiting scholars faced varied by the timing during their transition. Common challenges included finding opportunities at their home institutions, finding the host universities, setting up life in a new community, finding opportunities for interactions, and dealing with language and cultural issues. The expected challenges after their returning to home were mainly related to institutional arrangements and societal differences. The factors that influenced their transition included the arrangements at home and host institutions, academic fields, past American academic experiences, existing networks with Japanese and American colleagues, and their personalities. Recommendations are provided for American and Japanese universities, individual visiting scholars, and the Japanese government. As for implications from this study, since the Japanese visiting scholars mostly relied on their personal connections and previous experiences for transitions, in order to utilize international visiting scholars for short-term brain circulation, institutional and governmental support and policy arrangements need to be structured as a part of the initiative for the internationalization of higher education. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

近些年來，一些論文數據庫(特別是Libra) 變得公開化并已經開始提供給用戶他們請求獲得的信息。這使得我們可以將學術社區當做一個社會網絡來進行研究，不僅分析對作者的著作進行一些統計學的分析，還研究一個作者選擇性與其他作者合著的關係，以及一個作者對其他作者的影響。我們的研究即是定義一些基於社會網絡的方法來測試前面所說的影響關係及合著關係等。 / 我們設計的算法中，最主要的是作者影響力排名算法(AIR) 。該算法類似于著名的網頁排名算法(PageRank) ，並且把我們提取的三種關係都考慮在內。而其他的算法，都是基於某種關係或是某些關係的組合。這些算法包括:聯繫( Connection，利用合著關係、)， 追隨者數量(Follower Count ，利用發表關係)，追隨者(Follower ，利用引用關係)和平均引用數量(Balanced Citation Count ，利用合著關係和引用關係)。 / 這對這些算法，我們設計并研究了一些簡單的特例，通過算法之間橫向與縱向的比較來分析這些算法的特性。在不同的情形下，同一算法的表現并不一致，這是我們引入一個新的變量以便於靈活調整的原因。通過設定不同的變量值，我們利用距離衡量工具來度量這些算法結果的變化。 / 更進一步，我們利用不同的數據集合作為輸入來比較不同算法的表現，并利用一種距離測量工具(Spearman Footrule Distance) 來做算法之間的兩兩比較。在算法的比較中，基於排名值，我們能推斷出關於這些算法的一些結論。而基於累積值的比較，一方面驗證了這些結論的正確性，另一方面也展現出作者影響力排名算法(AIR) 的優越性。同時， 一些來源於現實生活中的排名結果，也可以用來串串證作者影響力排名算法(AIR) 的準確度。 / In recent years, some of the publications database become more publically accessible, and are starting to provide additional information users can query (this is specially the case with Libra). This allows us to study the author community as a social network, analyzing not only the statistics about papers published by an author, individually at a time, but also an author’s choice and extent in connecting to other authors (co-authoring), and an author’s influence on other authors. Our approach is todesign various social network type of metrics to measure the traits defined above. / The main algorithm Author Influence Ranking (AIR), which is analogous to PageRank algorithm, is defined by taking all three relationships into consideration. Other algorithms, based on a single relationship or combination of different relationships, include: Connection, ranking algorithm using coauthor-ship; Follower Count, ranking algorithm using the number of authors who cite papers of a particular author; Follower, ranking algorithm using citation-ship; Balanced Citation Count, ranking algorithm using citation counts normalized by coauthors. / To show properties of different algorithms and do comparison among them, we design and study primitive cases. For some algorithms, the teleportation vector leads to the deviation at certain extent. Therefore, we study different teleportation vectors by tuning a parameter β(details discussed in Chapter 4) from 0 (uniformly distributed) to 1 (proportional to authors’ productivity). With different β, we define Distance to measure the changes in results of these algorithms. / Furthermore, comparisons among these algorithms are conducted by using different publication dataset and we choose Spearman Footrule Distance in our experiment to do comparison for pair of algorithms. Rank value and cumulative value are used in the comparisons: based on the comparisons using rank value, we conclude several observations regarding these algorithms. While the comparisons based on cumulative value help us confirm the "efficiency" of AIR. For using AIR metric, we can find out those really influential researchers who may not be ranked high by other metrics. We study the influence of Turing award winners and all the Turing Award winners scored at least "B", from which we can see AIR’s "accuracy". We also apply AIR metric in the real situation. We study researchers who have Grade "A"(the grade will be discussed in Chapter 6) in Influence and find most of them have good positions in reality, which help us justify the validity of AIR.("efficiency", "accuracy" and "validity" will be discussed more in Chapter 6.) / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Song, Qianqian. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-82). / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iv / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Motivation --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Background --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Our Contribution and Organization --- p.5 / Chapter 2 --- Academic Ranking Algorithms --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Publication Statistics Algorithms --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Citation Count --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Balanced Citation Count --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Follower Count --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2 --- PageRank-like Algorithms --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- The PageRank Algorithm --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Author Influence Ranking --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Science Author Rank Algorithm --- p.17 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Connection --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2.5 --- Follower --- p.21 / Chapter 3 --- Analysis of Metrics Based on Primitive Cases --- p.22 / Chapter 3.1 --- The Original Case --- p.23 / Chapter 3.2 --- Case for Three General Authors --- p.24 / Chapter 3.3 --- Case for Productive Authors --- p.26 / Chapter 3.4 --- Cases for Productive Author and Coauthor-ship --- p.28 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Type i --- p.28 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Type ii --- p.30 / Chapter 3.5 --- Case for Coauthor-ship --- p.32 / Chapter 3.6 --- Cases for Citation Count and Balanced Citation Count --- p.34 / Chapter 3.6.1 --- Type i --- p.34 / Chapter 3.6.2 --- Type ii --- p.36 / Chapter 4 --- Key Parameter in PageRank-like Algorithms --- p.39 / Chapter 4.1 --- The Key Parameter β --- p.39 / Chapter 4.2 --- Comparison Based on β --- p.40 / Chapter 4.3 --- Discussion --- p.43 / Chapter 5 --- Algorithms Comparison --- p.46 / Chapter 5.1 --- The Description of Our Comparisons --- p.46 / Chapter 5.2 --- Similarity Between Different Metrics --- p.47 / Chapter 5.3 --- Two Dimensions Comparison --- p.51 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Comparison in Algorithms Dimension --- p.51 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Comparison in Time Dimension --- p.54 / Chapter 6 --- Case Study and Validation --- p.56 / Chapter 6.1 --- AIR v.s Other Metrics --- p.57 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- AIR v.s Citation Count --- p.58 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- AIR v.s Follower Count --- p.59 / Chapter 6.1.3 --- AIR v.s Follower --- p.61 / Chapter 6.1.4 --- AIR v.s Connection --- p.62 / Chapter 6.1.5 --- AIR v.s the First Active Year --- p.64 / Chapter 6.2 --- AIR v.s Rank in Reality --- p.65 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Ranking Award Recipients --- p.65 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Top AIR Ranking in Society --- p.65 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.76 / Bibliography --- p.78